Jim Jarmusch

Born on Jan. 22, 1953, Jarmusch was raised the middle of three children in Akron, OH, by his father, who worked for B.F. Goodwrench, and his mother, who wrote movie reviews for the Akron Beacon Journal. In fact, it was his mother who first sparked Jarmusch's passion for film by often leaving him in a local theater to watch double matinees of B-science fiction movies while she ran errands. His maternal grandmother had a bohemian streak, introducing the young Jarmusch to gypsies, Marcel Proust and Native American culture; the latter of which deeply influenced his later creative work as much as B movies did. After graduating Cayahoga Falls High School at 17, he scratched the itch to leav... Continue Bio >>